Tourism operators must prioritise all the environmental factors
that will potentially affect a community and a destination. It
is their responsibility to identify all the positive and negative
impacts that their activity, operations and infrastructure has
on the environment. Tourism operators and staff should be
advocates for protecting the environment and making sure their
visitors are educated and do the same. To maintain a sustainable
tourism operation, it will be essential that all environmental
impacts are identified.
Possible environmental factors impacted
by a tourism initiative can be related to:
• The natural environment
• The built environment
• The ecology
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